Going by the buzz at the Central Telegraph Office at Fort, one can scarce tell that the march of uber-modern technology will drown out the click-clack of 163-year-old message service in the coming 48 hours.u00a0

Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd, the state-own telco which runs the service, will send the last telegram on Monday. The imminent final stop has made many Mumbaikars look up from their smartphones and head out to the heritage building of the CTO to send a wire to their loved ones, mostly to be part of its passage into the reliquary.